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By Matt De Guzman

The Life of Steve Jobs


Born February 24 1995 Died October 5 2011 Steve jobs was the co-founder of apple was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and inventor. And the Chairman and CEO of apple inc

Family
Had a sister named Mona Simpson Married Laurene Powell on March 18 1991 They had a son named Reed that was born in September 1991 He had 2 daughters, their names were Erin and Eve

Career
Steve jobs is the founder of Apple Also served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios Became a member of the board directors on the Walt Disney company Got kicked out of apple and founded NeXT When Apple failed to come up with an operating system they turned to NeXT

Career cont.
The NeXTSTEP platform became the foundation for the Mac OS X Disney also bought Pixar He was credited in Toy Story as an executive producer Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad

Death
He died at his home in Palo Alto California at around 3pm on October 5 2011 Both Apple and Microsoft flew their flags at half-staff through out their respective headquarters and campuses For two weeks following his death, Apple put his name and lifespan next to his grayscale portrait

Products of Apple
The apple iMac was introduced in 1998 and its design was directly the result of Jobs returning. The first iPod was released on October 23, 2001 The iPod could hold 5G to 1-G The iPod sold for $399 and more than 100,000 iPods were sold before the end of 2001

Products of Apple Cont.


Apple began to work on the iPhone in 2005 The first iPhone was released on June 29 2007 At least 6 out of 10 Americans were aware of the iPhones release Time magazine also declared it as Invention of the Year in 2007

Bibliography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs http://allaboutstevejobs.com

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